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Food allergies are all kinds of conditions that accompany the baby after eating certain types of food. The impact of this food consumption varies from itching, swelling, sneezing, wheezing, shortness of breath, vomiting to diarrhea.
What symptoms are caused by food allergies?
Here are the common symptoms of food allergies:
- Common symptoms caused by food allergy is the onset of itching and swelling throughout the body.
- Another symptom is the emergence of eczema.
- More serious symptoms include sneezing, coughing, wheezing, breathlessness, vomiting, diarrhea, and death.
What is the difference between a food allergy and food intolerance?
Food allergy and intolerance are two different things. Food allergies are usually the result of our body systems that assume food that enters the body as 'something foreign' so that the body produces an allergic reaction with immunological mechanism mediated by immunoglobulin E (IgE) or non-IgE.
While food intolerance occurs due to certain content or substances toxin in food so that this substance can cause something in the body. For example, we will sneeze when the nose inhales the powder or always waste gas after eating beans.
What causes food allergies?
Basically, all foods can be a trigger for allergies. However, to note is the level of allergies of each food is different. Sometimes a certain type of food is eaten in small amounts can trigger allergies immediately and some are otherwise.
Seafood such as fish, crabs, and shellfish can trigger a strong allergy. Poultry products such as chicken eggs can also be an allergen, especially infants with atopic dermatitis. Products derived from plants can also cause allergy symptoms such as nuts (peanuts, cashew, and soybeans).
How do I know if a baby has food allergies?
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Symptoms of allergies will arise an hour or two after the relevant eating food triggers allergies. If your baby is allergic to 'X' food for example, then the reaction symptoms will appear every time the baby is fed X.
You can also take the baby to a doctor for a skin or blood test. However, doctors will, of course, combine the results of this examination with the medical history of infants and families to produce more accurate data.
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The most suitable examination is to do a 'Food Challenge', if the baby is taking this test then the amount of food that is considered as an allergy trigger will be given increasing every 20 minutes until the baby eats one serving of the food. Of course, this test will be done with expert supervision in order to provide help if things do not want to happen. A food challenge can also be used to decide whether the baby has food allergies or food intolerance.
Can food allergies be lost?
Statistics show that about 90% of babies with milk allergies in their early stages of growth will not be allergic by the time they are three years old. For allergies to eggs, wheat and soybeans can also be lost but there is no statistical data to support. While allergies caused by fish, shellfish, peanuts, cashews rarely can be removed.
Treatment of allergy sufferers
Did you know that the only treatment that is best for allergy sufferers is to avoid allergenic food triggers or not at all include these foods in the diet of patients?
There is also already considerable and successful bioresonance therapy in many patients.
First aid if the baby has food allergies
If you know your baby is having allergies then you can give them an antihistamine drug and then try to get a baby to rest sufficiently.
If the baby has severe allergic symptoms such as severe breathing, coughing, swelling of the mouth and eyes or the baby suddenly dazed like loss of consciousness then immediately take it to the hospital.
Tips to prevent food allergies in infants:
- Give exclusive breastfeeding until the baby is six months old.
- Giving solid foods should be given to babies who are at least six months old.
- Giving food such as nuts and seafood should be delayed until the baby is 3-4 years old.
- If using milk formula then you should use a formula that has been hydrolyzed
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